Quotes About Property

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.

for it happens that books are the only article of property in which I am richer than my neighbors.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.

I lived in New Jersey in a massive house, not a 50 Cent mansion, but four bedrooms, and I had acres of land.

I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark.

The immutable law of culture: if anything popular survives, it somehow becomes the property of the educated elite.

Pilfering was common in Communist China's state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack in guarding properties that belonged to the government and poorly paid workers felt it fair compensation for their low pay. The practice was so widespread that it was an open secret. The workers joked about it and called it Communism, which in Chinese translation means sharing property.

I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own.

ABAC'TOR, noun [Latin from abigo, ab and ago, to drive.] In law, one that feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one that steals a sheep or two.

We are people of the land, we are artists and craftsmen, storytellers, but we are also a world of laws. Most are not unlike the laws you know. To take a life, to take what is not yours or not given freely, to force another to lie with you, to neglect a child or animal. All of these acts cause harm, and our first law is to cause no harm.

These problems were particularly knotty in situations where the Nazis had "legalized" their acts of persecution by announcing laws and decrees that ordered deportations, compulsory labor, or seizure of property.

Later came the compulsory Aryanizations, which began in November 1938.4 The government seized Jewish property without compensation and sold the plunder to German companies or individuals.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.

The liberator who destroys my property," Tyler said, is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.

The liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perceptions.

And I say, that's different. Humans are above animals. Animals were put on this planet to feed and serve humanity. Human beings are precious and intelligent and unique, and God gave the animals to us. They're our property. Of course you'd say that, Helen says, you're on the winning team.

It was crazy to run and crazy not to run. How could a boy look past the school's property line, see that free and living world beyond, and not contemplate a dash to freedom? To write one's own story for once. To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one's humanity

The underground railroad maintained no lines to speak of. The decoys in negro dress, the secret codes in the back pages of newspapers. They openly bragged of their subversion, hustling a slave out the back door as the slave catchers broke down the front. It was a criminal conspiracy devoted to theft of property, and Ridgeway suffered their brazenness as a personal slur.

I don't get where it says, He that stealeth a man and sells him, shall be put to death," Cora said. "But then later it says, Slaves should be submissive to their masters in everything—and be well-pleasing." Either it was a sin to keep another as property, or it had God's own blessing. But to be well-pleasing in addition? A slaver must have snuck into the printing office and put that in there.